Monday, January 28, 2013

Kylie's letter 1-28-2013

So......
I will be staying in Camps and training, and actually about the whole
extension thing it might be a little longer. Presidente asked me to stay
for another three months (2 transfers) to help train all of the new
sisters that are coming in. So... we will be seeing each other in May,
perfect timing for the sun to start melting all that ice up there.

This week was great!

This week
we spent without water!! It is always a great surprise to turn on the
tap and watch as the water spurts a little and then completely stops.
Then it gets really funny when it stays like that for days. The
apartment we live in is great - we are lucky if there is electricity,
and the bathroom flush works, and we have to water to shower. So
basically my life in Campos has been stopped of toilet, sitting in the
dark, all sweaty stinky with no way to get clean. Hahaha- just kidding
it isn't that bad. We just spent 2 days without water came back for a
little bit to shower and then left again, and came back etc. etc. But
our toilet is still clogged. This apartment is a beauty. That is all I
have got to say. It was the elders that picked it out.

I also have some great news from Quissamã. One of
the ladies I taught there that got baptized and then left the church
(Angela) is starting to come back. I sent her the search for
happiness book, and Sister Zeller wrote her a baller letter and we both
have been praying our little hearts out for her. I knew she would come
back. But she is still having problems with her family not supporting
her and her whole neighborhood practically. Pray for her. But it was
evidence # 678,456, 002 that God hears and answers my prayers.

This week actually has been really hectic with
getting all the reports in to the LZ and assistants and everything - so
the journal got left out and thus I don't really remember what happened
this week. lets see.....

One of our investigators came to church and she said
she felt like she had already been here. I love when people say this.
Tons of people say this or they say to us that they feel like they have
always known us. This is the spirit bringing back all things to our
remembrance. They feel the spirit and they remember the spirit they felt
before this life and connect it to the thought they have already known
us and been to church but in reality they are just remember the truths
that they knew. It is the spirit!

Random memory of the week. We walk through a ghetto
neighborhood that we are not allowed to teach in, to get to the
neighborhoods we can teach in. And there is a street with a jukebox and
old Brazilian men sit there and change the music and start dancing to
the music by themselves with beer and cigarette in hand. haha - one of
my favorite memories of Campos.

Finished the Book of Mormon in Portuguese for the first time.
Love that book- cool to look back and see that when I started I had to
look up every single word, but now I can go through chapters without
having to pick up the dictionary. The Lord´s promises to His
missionaries are real!

Love you guys - stay safe with all that ice! really - I want a family to come back to.

beijos

sis p

ps.
soooo, actually I was just kidding about the whole extension thing.
HAHA! As much as I want to stay for another year and a half let alone
30 stinking days. God told me no -. there is a time and season for
everything. I was called to serve a year an half and there are other
missions bigger and better that God has in store for me. So, get the
preparations started. I want a homecoming complete with signs, music
makers, Brazi e US flags, and complete with a choreographed dance. Deal?
Done!